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I. General character
of the Gothic Mind in the Middle Ages II. General Character of the
Gothic Literature and Art III. The
Troubadours--Boccaccio--Petrarch--Pulci--Chaucer--Spenser IV-VI.
Shakspeare (not included in the original text) VII. Ben Jonson,
Beaumont and Fletcher, and Massinger VIII. 'Don Quixote'. Cervantes
IX. On the Distinctions of the Witty, the Droll, the Odd, and the
Humorous; the Nature and Constituents of Humour; Rabelais, Swift,
Sterne X. Donne, Dante, Milton, 'Paradise Lost' XI. Asiatic and Greek
Mythologies, Robinson Crusoe, Use of Works of Imagination in
Education XII. Dreams, Apparitions, Alchemists, Personality of the
Evil Being, Bodily Identity XIII. On Poesy or Art XIV. On Style
Notes on Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici Notes on Junius Notes
on Barclay's 'Argenis' Note in Casaubon's 'Persius' Notes on Chapman's
Homer Note in Baxter's 'Life of Himself' Fragment of an Essay on
Taste Fragment of an Essay on Beauty
Poems and Poetical Fragments
OMNIANA. The French Decade Ride and Tie Jeremy Taylor Criticism
Public Instruction Picturesque Words Toleration War Parodies M.
Dupuis Origin of the Worship of Hymen Egotism Cap of Liberty Bulls
Wise Ignorance Rouge Hasty Words Motives and Impulses Inward
Blindness The Vices of Slaves no excuse for Slavery Circulation of the
Blood 'Peritura Parcere Chartae' To have and to be Party Passion
Goodness of Heart Indispensable to a Man of Genius Milton and Ben
Jonson Statistics Magnanimity Negroes and Narcissuses An Anecdote
The Pharos at Alexandria Sense and Common Sense Toleration Hint
for a New Species of History Text Sparring Pelagianism The Soul and
its Organs of Sense Sir George Etherege, &c. Evidence Force of Habit
Phoenix Memory and Recollection 'Aliquid ex Nihilo' Brevity of the
Greek and English compared The Will and the Deed The Will for the

Deed Sincerity Truth and Falsehood Religious Ceremonies Association
Curiosity New Truths Vicious Pleasures Meriting Heaven Dust to Dust
Human Countenance Lie useful to Truth Science in Roman Catholic
States Voluntary Belief Amanda Hymen's Torch Youth and Age
December Morning Archbishop Leighton Christian Honesty Inscription
on a Clock in Cheapside Rationalism is not Reason Inconsistency Hope
in Humanity Self-love in Religion Limitation of Love of Poetry
Humility of the Amiable Temper in Argument Patriarchal Government
Callous self-conceit A Librarian Trimming Death Love an Act of the
Will Wedded Union Difference between Hobbes and Spinosa The End
may justify the Means Negative Thought Man's return to Heaven
Young Prodigies Welch names German Language The Universe
Harberous An Admonition To Thee Cherubim and Seraphim
continually do cry Definition of Miracle Death, and grounds of belief in
a Future State Hatred of Injustice Religion The Apostles' Creed A
Good Heart Evidences of Christianity 'Confessio Fidei

THE FALL OF ROBESPIERRE
AND OTHER POEMS.

TO H. MARTIN, ESQ.
OF JESUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.
DEAR SIR,
Accept, as a small testimony of my grateful attachment, the following
Dramatic Poem, in which I have endeavoured to detail, in an interesting
form, the fall of a man, whose great bad actions have cast a disastrous
lustre on his name. In the execution of the work, as intricacy of plot
could not have been attempted without a gross violation of recent facts,
it has been my sole aim to imitate the impassioned and highly
figurative language of the French Orators, and to develope the
characters of the chief actors on a vast stage of horrors.
Yours fraternally,
S. T. COLERIDGE.
Jesus College, September 22, 1794.

THE FALL OF ROBESPIERRE.

AN HISTORIC DRAMA. 1794. [1]
[Footnote 1: The origin and authorship of "The Fall of Robespierre"
will be best explained by the following extract from a letter from Mr.
Southey to the Editor:
"This is the history of The Fall of Robespierre. It originated in sportive
conversation at poor Lovell's, and we agreed each to produce an act by
the next evening;--S. T. C. the first, I the second, and Lovell the third. S.
T. C. brought part of his, I and Lovell the whole of ours; but L.'s was
not in keeping, and therefore I undertook to supply the third also by the
following day. By that time, S. T. C. had filled up his. A dedication to
Mrs. Hannah More was concocted, and the notable performance was
offered for sale to a bookseller in Bristol, who was too wise to buy it.
Your Uncle took the MSS. with him to Cambridge, and there rewrote
the first act at leisure, and published it. My portion I never saw from
the time it was written till the whole was before the world. It was
written with newspapers before me, as fast as newspaper could be put
into blank verse. I have no desire to claim it now, or hereafter; but
neither am I ashamed of it; and if you think proper to print the whole,
so be it."--
"The Fall of Robespierre, a